API call to set User-Agent

[wfaulk]

I am trying to create a macgap application for the VMware vCenter Web Client. It checks User-Agent and shows a banner if it's not one of the supported clients. It might also change its feature set based on User-Agent.

It would be nice if macgap provided an API call to set the User-Agent to an arbitrary value.

[tmeusburger]

This would be incredibly useful to me as well. Many websites have bad UX when it comes to locking down certain user agents.

Anyways, I ran into this exact same problem. Would be awesome to get this implemented.

[jeff-h]

@wfaulk and @tmeusburger — I've written some code which adds a javascript method to set a custom user agent. The code is at https://github.com/maccman/macgap/pull/93 — let me know if you have any problems merging it in and using it.

[tmeusburger]

Thank you @jeff-h, when I get a chance i'll merge in your code and play around with macgap some more. I appreciate you putting the time in to resolve this.

[jeff-h]

This is now committed. Please reopen this issue if you have any problems or feedback.

[fluke]

Setting custom user agent doesn't seem to be working or I've made a mistake somewhere:

<script type="text/javascript" charset="utf-8">
      macgap.app.setCustomUserAgent('Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_10_2) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/41.0.2272.118 Safari/537.36');
      macgap.growl.notify({title: 'MacGap', content: navigator.userAgent});
</script>

Also how do I go about debugging MacGap apps, finding it a bit hard to figure out. @jeff-h

[jeff-h]

Just confirming, you're using MacGap 1 for this?

[fluke]

Hey. I cloned the repo and it worked, the macgap gem is pretty old. I was trying to make a MacGap version of web.whatsapp.com but that didn't end up working.